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When guns are outlawed, outlaws will use other TOOLS to commit violence (of course the anti gunners won’t care about these because only people who die from gunshots are dead, right?
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Atlantan found guilty of ****** AX MURDERS *****
of Ellenwood couple may face *****execution*****

******(THIS is CRIMINAL control!)******** THIS is what we should be pushing for… IF we REALLY care about violent crime being stopped……..
Those who blame INANIMATE OBJECTS for crime, instead of CRIMINALS (INDIVIDUALS that commit crime), only make the streets safer for CRIMINALS by providing them with UNARMED VICTIMS!!!!!!!!!

By HENRY FARBER
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer

Sunny Sung / AJC
Richard Sealey was found guilty Friday of malice murder and 17 other
counts
in the ax murders of Johnny Tubner, 71, and Fannie Mae Tubner, 63.

A Clayton County jury will decide next week whether Richard Sealey,
38,
should be executed for murdering an Ellenwood couple who were beaten
and
chopped with an ax in January 2000.

The jury found the Atlanta man guilty Friday of two counts of malice
murder
and 17 other counts.

Prosecutors said Sealey led three younger accomplices in a robbery
that
ended in the torture deaths of Johnny Tubner, 71, and Fannie Mae
Tubner, 63.

One accomplice, witnesses said, was the Tubners’ granddaughter,
Deandrea
Carter, who was 15. She is in the Clayton County Jail and could be
tried for
murder as early as October.

“How much did she participate? That’s what the jury in her case will
have to
decide,” said Senior Assistant District Attorney Todd Naugle.

Witnesses already have described her as Sealey’s lover and the
accomplice
who fetched the ax.

About 20 relatives of the Tubners nodded and softly voiced their
approval as
the jury foreman spoke.

“I believe my mom and dad were in the courtroom. Their spirit was
right
there,” said Sherry Tubner, who was Johnny Tubner’s only daughter.

Eddie Williams, one of two sons of Fannie Mae Tubner, said after the
sentence, “Thank God for his mercy. He takes care of the vengeance,
too.”

The jury of five men and seven women still faces a two- to three-day
death
penalty hearing.

In the sentencing, the jury may hear details of Sealey’s criminal
past that
could not be gone into at trial. They have been told he was
imprisoned for
12 years for an assault in the West Indies, but few other details.

Two men accompanied Sealey and Carter to the Tubner home, witnesses
said.
Wajaka Battiste, 25, of Stone Mountain and Gregory Fahie, 26, of
Atlanta
testified against Sealey and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit
murder.

Battiste, who said he did not enter the house, will receive five
years,
according to a plea agreement. Fahie, who said he was afraid Sealey
would
kill him if he did not help search the house, will get 10 years.